Young County turnout for early voting sets record

Young County voters turned out in record numbers for early voting in the Nov. 5 general election, Election Supervisor Kaitlyn Mosley said.

More than 36 percent of Young County’s 12,406 voters had turned out by Sunday, Oct. 27, the seventh day of early voting, Ms. Mosley said.

Ms. Mosley said the turnout is the largest in her tenure and that she hopes “to hit 50 percent before early voting ends.”

Young County is tracking ahead of the statewide cumulative in-person early voting total of 29.17 percent as of Oct. 27, the Texas Secretary of State website shows.

Ms. Mosley said early balloting was going smoothly at the two polling locations in Olney and Graham and that she was encouraged by the high turnout so far.

Young County has added 522 registered voters to its rolls since the 2022 midterm elections, state data shows.

In 2020, Young County had 11,769 registered voters and 70 percent, or 8,242 turned out overall, according to the Texas Secretary of State.

Sixty percent, or 7,088 Young County voters cast early ballots in the 2020 presidential election, those figures show.

The Nov. 3, 2020 presidential contest between Democrat Joe Biden and Republican incumbent Donald Trump drew the highest voter turnout in Young County since the 1992 general election pitting Democrat Bill Clinton against Republican incumbent George H.W. Bush, state statistics show.

Early voting runs through Friday, Nov. 1 at the Olney Community Library and Arts Center.